ANATOMY OF A DIRTY DEAL: Caper movies come and go, but John Huston’s “The Asphalt Jungle” (1950) – at the American Museum of the Moving Image – sticks in your mind long after you’ve seen it. The mechanics of the jewel robbery are secondary. Huston trains his black-and-white cameras on the gang members and why they’re in on the dirty deal. Sterling Hayden is Dix Hanley, ex-con and drifter, who needs the dough to go back home to Kentucky. Emmerich (Louis Calhern), an oily lawyer with an invalid wife and a mistress, wants the loot to get out of hock. The mastermind, Doc (Sam Jaffe), an unflappable dirty old man, dreams of cutting out to Mexico. Jean Hagen is listed as the female lead (Hanley’s girl, Doll Conovan), but Marilyn Monroe – who isn’t in the opening credits – steals that department as Angela Phinlay, Emmerich’s childlike lover. She has only two scenes, but they’re knockouts. Also top-notch is Barry Kelley as a rotund, crooked police lieutenant. “The Asphalt Jungle” unspools tomorrow at 4:15 p.m., part of an AMMI series of films set in Los Angeles, running weekends through Aug. 15. The museum is at 35th Avenue and 36th Street, in Astoria, Queens; http://www.movingimage.us.